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...century, to the days when 1 out of every 10 Dubliners either worked for Guinness or was supported by someone who did. The company was a classic paternalistic employer: it built affordable housing for its workers, and provided pensions, health care and education benefits long before they were the norm. Employees even received an allowance of free beer. "That aspect is gone - the caring, sharing company," says Glennon wistfully. "Everyone knows that you're just part of a multinational." Maybe so, but in the cutthroat environment of today's beer market, being part of a multinational is all but essential...
...lofty goal and one all can agree on: do what's best for the kids. But what about the parents' well-being? Having to cooperate in a shared-custody arrangement after an acrimonious split can be exhausting, infuriating and interminably stressful. Yet joint custody is rapidly becoming the norm in the U.S., displacing the old-fashioned model of awarding custody to mothers. The arrangements vary. Joint legal custody means parents make shared decisions over major issues like education and medical treatment regardless of where the children live. Joint physical custody, which is steadily becoming the preferred arrangement in many states...
Given prior commitments in Iraq, carving out a successful foreign policy also requires a major departure from preferred business as usual for the Bush administration according to the panelists—reforging bonds with traditional Western European allies and cultivating an arena in which multilateral action is the norm, not the product of convenience...
...writers can flesh out characters they could only sketch in the initial film. Any critic could name a fistful of follow-ups that outshone originals: The Bride of Frankenstein; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; The Road Warrior; Aliens; Batman Returns. In TV, improving with age is the norm: a good sitcom, whether Mary Tyler Moore or South Park, ripens in its third or fourth season. Films used to be about drastic change, TV about the status quo. Now both bestow on their characters a steady evolution. A lot like growing up. But do moviegoers ever grow up? Their...
...month, enough to ensure that the juice will flow throughout the Olympic Games. But the Continent's electricity system isn't so easily fixed. Regulators have to offer incentives to companies to make long-term investment profitable. Until then, blackouts like the one in Athens will remain the unsettling norm...